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Jones did not learn of Biko's death until he was transferred from solitary confinement to a maximum-security prison six months later. Now 46, he is a businessman involved in black economic initiatives and remains active in the struggle to uncover the truth about Biko's death...
...That truth, in all its ugly detail, is emerging in affidavits by Jones and others before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the inquiry that convened last April to investigate and adjudge some of the worst abuses of apartheid. Many of those providing details are the killers themselves, eager to exchange information for the commission's promises of amnesty. Last month the commission disclosed that applications had been filed by a number of former security policemen in connection with the deaths of at least 10 antiapartheid activists, including Biko, as well as incidents of torture and assault, including...
...release in April, he has refused an offer of a pardon by Florida Governor Lawton Chiles. Accepting the offer, he says, would mean admitting he is guilty, and he is confident that he will eventually be vindicated. Despite his travails, he says, "I'm seeking justice and seeking the truth. I believe in the system of justice in the United States...
...seeking $1.5 million in back taxes and penalties from Jon and Robin. (The amount would eventually drop to $36,787, atheist lawyers have said.) And there was the payback for Madalyn's tendency to litigate. In September 1987, she sued for control of a California atheist organization called Truth Seeker. (The bid failed.) Truth Seeker's furious owner countersued American Atheists under a federal racketeering law. The dispute eventually ate up more than $500,000 in legal fees; at one point Madalyn was so sure of losing that she told an employee not to be surprised if he came...
...truth, this tragedy could almost as easily have occurred in any number of other areas in the small Jewish state, where such disasters happen infrequently (which is, of course, still far too frequently) given the tremendous numbers of military maneuvers that must occur in Israel daily relative to those in nations in a state of peace with non-belligerent neighbors...